the obama administration appointed him to the national innovation and competitiveness strategy advisory board and among other things he's written books about innovation economics. so we're going to dive in. i want to start by talking about the moment in history in technology and talk about some of the technology elements that are coming together now to make this a meaningful discussion in a way that probably more truth than it it would have within a few years ago. i want to start with you avi reichental. do you want to . >> absolutely. i personally think that we live in an incredible moment in the record of human history. because of the convergence of the -- together makes many creativity localized and possible. and specifically i'm talking about the convergence of infa knit computing power in the cloud mobile devices. our official intelligence -- [inaudible] and incredibly accurate and inexpensive sensor rick the one you in the kinnect xbox it can transform the way we educate, communicate, deliver pernlgized medical devices and many empower millions of people to begin to appropriate wi